"Design like you mean it. You need to really care about what you’re doing."
Dave Peth, Senior Produce of Interactive Media at WGBH
speaking at CreativeMornings/Boston(*watch the talk)
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We always like to catch our audience in the act of sketching, particularly if they’re drawing what looks like a bunch of lions like this guy at our Chicago event.
See more note-taking and sketching in action over in our CreativeMornings Sketch Notes Group—and be sure to add your own!
"You can’t build great experiences with only developers involved. You need to get designers involved."
Grant Skinner, Developer
speaking at CreativeMornings/Edmonton(*watch the talk)
"Social responsibility starts at home with all of us."
Holley Murchison, Co-Founder of the Hall Pass Tour
speaking at CreativeMornings/NewYork(*watch the talk)
Photos are up from CreativeMornings/Lima with Tomás Unger. Photos by Melissa Ingaruca. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Lima chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Karina Pastor. Follow along with them at @Lima_CM!
"If you bottle up your emotions, they’ll just derail your studio work when you actually have to get stuff done."
Colby Nichols, Partner at Jolby
speaking at CreativeMornings/Portland(*watch the talk)
Even the cookies were backwards for May’s CreativeMornings/Munich—perfect for the month’s theme around ‘Backwards‘—with speaker Johannes Pietsch. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Munich chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Kalle Buschmann. Follow along with them at @Munich_CM!
In honor of May’s theme, ‘Backwards,’ Mig Reyes spoke at our Chicago event—giving some backwards, or untraditional, advice. Here’s a recap:
Burn your business cards.
Mig points out that there’s an odd way we introduce ourselves in America, where we tend to lead with our title. “We define ourselves by what’s on this business card, this title, when really, we’re robbing ourselves of a lot of really great possibilities if we just forget about our title," says Mig.
He tells us to consider ruining our business card, or at least losing it. No one will hire you to do the über-specific job-title you have already anyways, so don’t let it define you.
Break things.
“All your life we’re told to make things, maybe we should break them," says Mig. He goes on to talk about his experience with humblepied.com, an initiative to capture great advice, all over iChat. In creating the website, he had to break a lot along the way.
Breaking things is dangerous, but that’s how you learn. Mig advises us to break things and take them apart.
Make ugly things.
“There’s this unhealthy obsession in design with making beautiful things," he says. Citing the work of Jan Tschichold, Mig says that we’re taught how to design ‘well’—in the same vein as Jan, but what about the David Carsons? Where is the next generation of people making things ugly?
Making beautiful isn’t always the point. We shouldn’t be sticking to the safe groove of design we’re in; we should mix things up and make ugly.
Spend less time on things.
Here, Mig introduces us to a few ways he broke up his design routine by spending less time on things. Like making things ugly, spending less time allowed Mig to drop some of the pressure and responsibility of making something beautiful and time-intensive.
Layer Tennis proved to be a great way for Mig to flex those skills under a time crunch, playing the likes of Jessica Hische and other artist/designer extraordinaires.
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quoted by Sharon Montrose, Photographer
speaking at CreativeMornings/LosAngeles(*watch the talk)
Photos are up from CreativeMornings/Milan with Paolo Iabichino. Photos by Fillippo Podestá. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Milan chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Nicoló Borghi. Follow along with them at @Milan_CM!
